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When It Comes to Who Completely Took Over Google, One Republican Stood Above the Rest
Independent Journal Review ^ | December 16, 2015 | Maegan Vazquez

Posted on 12/16/2015 8:09:32 AM PST by Isara

There’s still time to debate who won the December 15th GOP debate on CNN.

But now, we have the data to lock down who won the most Google-able moments.

Here’s when voters searched for each candidate throughout the debate:

Screen Shot 2015-12-15 at 11.02.19 PM

Image Credit: Google Trends

The peak search moment for a candidate during the debate happened here:

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Image Credit: Google Trends

That spike belonged to Ted Cruz at 10:52 PM EST:

He did three key things that made those watching — especially likely Republican voters — give him a second look online.

1) Cruz doubled down on his insistence that he would not bash Trump:

Cruz stuck to his message, refusing to trash talk Trump even though The Donald has been on the attack.

While other candidates, like Rick Perry and Scott Walker, sunk after they went on the offensive with Trump, Cruz stayed above the fray. His reward? Polling above Donald Trump in Iowa.

2) He invoked Reagan:

Lots of people love former President Ronald Reagan. Just take a look at this poll that has more than half of those polled viewing Reagan as favorable. And this poll that ranks him as one of the best presidents of all time.

3) He criticized Democrats for insufficiently dealing with terrorism:

On how Democrats have combatted ISIS and radical Islam, Cruz said:

“They won’t even call it by its name.”

Americans now say that terrorism is now this country’s #1 problem, even topping the economy.

Here’s exactly what Cruz was saying as people searched for him:

Ted Cruz Google Trend Moment (Video)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: cruz; google; googleablemoments; googlesearch; lasvegasdebate; reagan; ronaldreagan; tcruz; tedcruz
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I’m for Trump too but you gotta give the man his due...


21 posted on 12/16/2015 8:37:08 AM PST by GOPJ (The enemy? (UWEE) Unified Washington Establishment Elites (UWEE -sounds similar to a pig call.)
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To: Jewbacca
It was a very classy move by Cruz, and he’s correct: ANY of the 9 on that stage would be an infinitely better commander-in-chief than Obama or Clinton.

Cruz was just being nice to the Liberal John Kasich.

22 posted on 12/16/2015 8:47:13 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Isara

I heard Cruz call the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. No one else came close.


23 posted on 12/16/2015 8:48:32 AM PST by w4women ("I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism" - Reagan)
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To: Patton@Bastogne

24 posted on 12/16/2015 8:50:32 AM PST by hey Bean
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To: Kartographer
I'm delighted you are finally seeing The Light! :) :) :)

Remember: An anagram of President Donald Trump is DEPORT DIM TAN PLUNDERERS!

25 posted on 12/16/2015 8:53:12 AM PST by Lazamataz (It has gotten to the point where any report from standard news outlets must be fact-checked.)
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To: hey Bean

your best friend ?


26 posted on 12/16/2015 8:57:16 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Lazamataz
See those candles you lighted for me made the difference!!

27 posted on 12/16/2015 9:07:28 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

LOL!?!


28 posted on 12/16/2015 9:10:38 AM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: Daffynition; Lazamataz

Hank Williams Sr... I Saw The Light - 1948

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtolv9kM1qk


29 posted on 12/16/2015 9:14:34 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

We COULD ask him to go away. Not go go away mad. Just go away. Or, if he wants, go away mad.


30 posted on 12/16/2015 9:15:56 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest; Lazamataz; Daffynition

HEATHEN!!! See post #27 and #29 this thread!

Laz light another candle for this lost FReeper please.


31 posted on 12/16/2015 9:19:45 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

My anagram beats your infidel nature. :)


32 posted on 12/16/2015 9:22:21 AM PST by Lazamataz (It has gotten to the point where any report from standard news outlets must be fact-checked.)
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To: Kartographer

Yeah, well laz is seriously wacked. If he calls me names, that’s further validation I’m on the right track.

I am a heathen to the trump religion.

Perhaps everyone else will defect to the trump relugion.

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.


33 posted on 12/16/2015 9:31:21 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Reno89519

That was nearly a Trump Cruz love fest last night. They were last seen heading for one of those Elvis impersonator wedding chapels there in Vegas.

As for Trump getting hammered about suggesting we kill the families of the COWARDLY radical leaders of these muslim murderers, issuing a death warrant for the families of these people might cause them to reconsider dispatching their brainwashed and largely illiterate fellows to murder US if THEIR families will die.

General Sherman correctly observed that “War is hell”. We’re in a WAR!

What’s so different from Trump’s idea than the allied fire bombing of Dresden in February, 1945, 6 months before the German surrender? An estimated 100,000 to 500,000 men, women and CHILDREN were killed. The exact number could only be estimated because there were so few actual intact corpses to count! Many historians believe it was an act of pure revenge for Hitler’s indiscriminate bombing of Britain and they’re probably right.

Then, of course, there was Hiroshima & Nagasaki in August of ‘45. Scores of thousands of Japanese women and children died to save American lives by avoiding an invasion of the home islands.

All Trump is suggesting is that an EARNEST PREEMPTIVE threat to these SAVAGES MIGHT save the lives of OUR INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHEN THE FIGHT HERE ON OUR SOIL REALLY GETS CRANKED UP. THANKS TO OBOZO AND HIS IMBECILIC “IMPORT AN ISLAMIST” PROGRAM, IT SOON WILL!!


34 posted on 12/16/2015 9:34:06 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: hey Bean

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

Do you, by chance, have an IP address from India?


35 posted on 12/16/2015 9:44:29 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Axeslinger

If Mr. Trump didn’t understand the question, the question wasn’t worth understanding and the person who asked it is a total loser!


36 posted on 12/16/2015 9:52:47 AM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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To: dead

you forgot the < /sarc> tag


37 posted on 12/16/2015 9:54:53 AM PST by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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To: Axeslinger

I don’t believe in them. I leave it up to the reader.


38 posted on 12/16/2015 9:58:15 AM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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To: Isara
**DRUDGE POLL** WHO WON 5TH REPUBLICAN DEBATE '16?

TRUMP  43.36%  (143,394 votes)  
 
CRUZ  26.82%  (88,710 votes)  
 
PAUL  12.99%  (42,969 votes)  
 
RUBIO  8.16%  (26,972 votes)  
 
CHRISTIE  2.76%  (9,121 votes)  
 
FIORINA  2.02%  (6,697 votes)  
 
BUSH  1.59%  (5,270 votes)  
 
CARSON  1.59%  (5,245 votes)  
 
KASICH  0.71%  (2,348 votes)  
 
 
Total Votes: 330,726

39 posted on 12/16/2015 9:59:14 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: conservative98

Every candidate, no matter what they say, will support legalization in one way or another, sooner or later.


40 posted on 12/16/2015 9:59:30 AM PST by MaggiesPitchfork
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